{1} Tempest {Sweet Pea}

XIII

She opened her door, unsure of what or who she would be finding out there and she sighed.

She looks to see Sweet Pea standing there with at least three other young Serpents.

"He pulled a gun on you? Why?" She asked, quickly now shrugging into her Serpents jacket, as he explained what happened.

"Last night, he was tagging our turf with red spray paint. Marking a circle or something on our turf. We told him to leave, but he threatened us. I pulled a knife, and he pulled a gun, with the trigger prepped and ready. His finger, it was on the trigger Tempest." Sweet Pea said and Storm walked up the stairs with them and Archie opened the door.

"You put a gun in his face Archie? I can't calm them now. Frankly, I agree with them on this." She was shouting at him, while the rest of the Serpents all stood outside.

"Why can't you just agree with me on this? You told me to fight back! You're the fighter!" He shouted at her.

"Yeah, but I used to have a brother, his name was Archie Andrews. Called me Hurricane. But he died, when this. New gun obsessed freak was born. I'm standing with the Serpents tonight."

She says and opened the door, and Sweet Pea moved to let her stand next to the other Serpents.

"How stupid are you Northsiders? You really think, that you can just come to my house, stick a gun in my face in front of my boys, and there wouldn't be any payback?" Sweet Pea asked as Archie just stared at his sister, who was saying nothing.

"You have crap timing, bro. Bulldogs eag Serpents for lunch." Reggie said as he stepped forward.

"I don't know about that, Reg. After all, I stand with the Serpents. We all know how that last fight went. You got your ass kicked and handed back to you by a girl. On a silver platter."

Storm mutters loudly enough for all the Serpents plus Reggie to hear, and he went to charge towards her but the rest of the Serpents stood in his way.

"We'll see about that. And the more the merrier." Sweet Pea calls out over Reggie's head, and Reggie grabs him, a second later, Storm was facin' off with him.

"Try it Reggie." She growled at him and he looked at her with fury in his eyes.

"If you want a fight, then we will fight." Archie says and Sweet Pea let out a grunt.

"What about your gun?" He asked coldly and Archie looked squarely at him.

"What about your knife?" Archie shot back, and Storm put her arm between the boys quickly, to stop their house of peace for the most part from tippin' to become a warzone.

"How about no weapons? If you troglodytes insist on doing this, there are gonna be rules." Veronica says as she stepped forward. "Including, that Storm doesn't fight." She said and the Serpents immediately start protesting.

"That's enough boys. I'm fighting either way, but I only jump in, when it gets bad. Agreed?" She asked, looking at the Serpents surrounding her like a family and they nodded slightly.

"Or would you rather I call Sheriff Keller to referee?" Veronica asked and Storm looked at her.

"I would referee this fight myself Lodge... but I'm not the mediator in this fight Veronica. I do have a side, for this fight." She said and she walks away along with the Serpents, who all followed her.

She was waiting with the other Serpents, having rode with the others on their motorcycles and she had hers parked a foot away.

"Are you sure about this?" Sweet Pea asked, and she looked at him. "This is your twin brother, your blood family."

He looks at the Bulldogs as they approached them, and she just shakes her head.

"I appreciate it Sweet Pea. I do appreciate it. But I'm not a Bulldog, I never was. You guys are all, my real family now. Let's do this."

She zips up her jacket, as they all walked towards the center of the abandoned lot, rain and thunder crashing around them.

Archie threw the first punch and when it looked like it was getting bad, or more like when Reggie attacked her, Storm tossed him away and then got tackled by four others.

She began fighting, ignoring the fact that she had four guys to fight with as well as the fact that Dilton was pulling a knife on himself.

Then suddenly, a gunshot was heard, ringing out in the night air, and Storm looked up suddenly to see Veronica as she was holding the gun.

"Let's go!" Sweet Pea shouted and Fangs helped up Storm, as she drove off on her motorcycle with the other Serpents.

She looked at the others, as she parked her motorcycle next to theirs and they looked at her.

"You got jumped by four at once, are you okay?" Fangs asked and she looks at him.

"Yeah, apart from my brother giving me this." She says quietly, and pointed at her black eye, that was starting to swell a bit.

"He gave that to you? Your brother is the..." Fangs starts and she shakes her head at him.

"He was aiming for Pea, I didn't duck in time. Wasn't anyone's faults, except mine." She muttered, shifting her arm around quickly. "You guys are gonna be okay?" She asked and they looked at her with smiles and smirks, looking at their Northside Serpent.

"You're our exactly one of one Northside Serpent. Are you gonna be okay?" Sweet Pea asked and she nods at him, and saluted to the others, and she walked off.

As soon as she got home, she parked her bike and after showering, into the garage and no sleep, but instead she'd be playing 8 ball, until she couldn't at all anymore.